Rent your mini router and stay connected wherever you go! The mini router is also known by the following names: wireless wifi router, wifi hotspot, portable wifi or pocket wifi. Pocket wifi has seen a dazzling rise in recent years, it is the number one tool to stay connected during your holidays in Austria.

Portable wifi allows you to have high-speed internet access throughout Austria. Here are the 4 Solutions to have mobile internet in Austria:

Mobile Wifi rental

This small box allows unlimited access to the Internet in any location covered by the telephone network. Basically, it works like a phone with connection sharing, but without the phone function.

The 4G network being quite developed in the major cities in Austria such as Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg or Innsbruck, the connection is excellent and you can simultaneously pair several terminals, whether Smartphones, tablets, computers or game consoles. Note that once out of the big cities, the wifi hotspot can also connect to the various providers of the Austrian mobile network, ensuring full coverage on the territory. Pocket wifi rental in Austria available from 6.40 Euros per day with My Webspot, for unlimited access and optimal bandwidth with the 4G LTE.

Mobile Internet in Austria: Free Wifi in Austria

Free wifi in Austria is not always a practical and efficient solution, but it has the advantage of being free. The connection is slow and of poor quality; only reading and sending your emails will not be a problem for you. To download a file or other activities requiring a stable and efficient Internet, you will encounter frequent disconnection problems. For Vienna, you can consult the following site to find the free wifi terminals: where you can find free wifi in Vienna. You will notice that most of the free wifi is located in pubs, cafés or hotels and therefore, you will be asked to use it to get the wifi code in exchange.

Be careful with free wifi, which is often linked to hacker attacks because your personal data is vulnerable and much less protected, unlike pocket wifi, which is secure.

Prepaid SIM cards in Austria

A bank account and a local address are the two elements to provide mobile network operators with a prepaid SIM card with a fixed price in Austria.

Some providers such as Aon, inode or EUnet have special offers for travellers but their advantage is more oriented towards voice calls than the Internet. Indeed, the prepaid SIM card in Austria only offers you a slow and poor quality 3G speed, unlike wifi hotspot and its 4G LTE 10 times faster.

Other problems encountered by travellers:

- You must change your phone number, which will make you unavailable on your

current number.

- Make sure your phone is unlocked and compatible with local SIM cards,

because very often they are not.

Data abroad in Austria

Called by some: data roaming is the most dangerous way to stay connected to the Internet when travelling in Austria. A large number of people have already been fooled by this type of M.O., which is similar to a scam. At first everything is fine when you sail under a package but, once your package expires, your bill rises in a surprising and fast way. Knowing that it is quite common to exceed your package, avoid using this solution.

We hope you know more about mobile internet in Austria.